"the semi-finals. Squash in Ireland Irish Squash includes notable players such as Jonah Barrington, Derek Ryan, Madeline Perry, Liam Kenny Aisling Blake and John Rooney. Jonah Barrington was honoured with a lifetime achievement award in 2006 at the World Squash Awards. Irish Squash is currently experiencing a resurgence in popularity following a dip in its profile during the 1990s. Belfast hosted the Women's International Squash Players Association World Championship in November 2006 with the final being played at the Ulster Hall. Irish Squash, the national governing body for squash in Ireland, celebrated its 75th anniversary in 2010. There are many"
"national university team, Harrington helped the U.S. ball hockey program reach new heights by winning the silver medal, following fourth-place finishes each of the previous five times it had entered the biennial tournament. A late semifinal win over a Canada team defending gold medals in 2013 and 2015 and featuring professional women's ice hockey stars Jamie Lee Rattray and Devon Skeats clinched Team USA's best finish ever and highlighted the run. Ahead of the inaugural NWHL season in 2015–16, Harrington signed a professional contract with the Buffalo Beauts. The signing made her the first former ACHA player to sign in"
"competed with her local gym's climbing team. From there, she became a professional sport climber and expanded into the world of rock face and mountain climbing. Harrington studied international affairs with an emphasis on politics in Sub-Saharan Africa at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She graduated in 2007 and was shortly after approached by The North Face to join their global athlete team. Harrington has been US National Champion for sport climbing five times. She was also named the North American Sport Climbing Champion twice and placed second in the World Championships in 2005. In 2006, Harrington placed first"
"at the 2006 European Championships. He tried other sports, including a spell with the Hamburg Sea Devils of the NFL Europa league and a rugby league trial with Castleford. Sprinting success came over 60 m when he won silver at the 2008 World Indoor Championships, gold at the 2009 European Indoors, and became world champion at the 2010 World Indoor Championships. Due to his doping ban, he was barred from the Olympics, Commonwealth Games, and much of the European racing circuit, from 2006 to 2012. The Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned his lifetime Olympic ban, deeming it non-compliant with"
"and Yohan Blake. He went on to coach a number of prominent sprinters, including Jerome Young, but received a life-ban from athletics in 2010 as he had obtained performance-enhancing drugs for his athletes. Stewart attended Camperdown High School, and was coached by Glen Mills. After leaving Camperdown Stewart attended Texas Christian University in Fort Worth, Texas Running in the Under 17 Boy's category Stewart won the 100 m event at the CARIFTA Games in Nassau, his time being 10.9 s. He completed a successful double by winning the 200 m in 22.32 s. At the CARIFTA Games in Fort-de-France Stewart"
"on UMD's roster. He lettered for four seasons at UMD from 1975 to 1979. Following his collegiate playing career, Harrington was invited to try out for the 1979–80 US National team coached by the Minnesota Golden Gophers' Herb Brooks. Harrington made every cut and was placed on the Olympic roster for the 1980 Lake Placid games. The team went on to defeat the highly favored Soviet Union 4–3 in the first game of the Medal Round in an event named the ""Miracle on Ice"". The team defeated Finland 4–2 two days later to capture the Gold Medal for the US."
"skaters from the JGP. After placing 13th in his senior-level national debut, he won the junior gold medal at the Gardena Spring Trophy. In the 2002–03 season, Pennington won the silver medal at both his events and then won the bronze medal at the Junior Grand Prix Final. He placed 6th at Nationals, earning himself another trip to the World Junior Championships. However, an injury led him to withdraw before the event began. He was coached by Diana Ronayne from 2003 through 2005. He competed out of the Eastern Section in 2003, the only season he represented the Skating Club"
"of the Year the Gatorade Player of the Year and ""USA Today"" Pennsylvania Player of the Year. He became the second player in Pennsylvania Class 4-A history to rush for more than 4,000 career yards, with 4,357 on 711 carries and 72 touchdowns. He played in the 1997 Big 33 Football Classic, the annual game between Pennsylvania and Ohio's best high school football players. In basketball, he was recruited to play basketball for Georgetown, UMass, and North Carolina. Also a standout sprinter, Arrington was on the school's track & field team, where he recorded personal-best times of 10.85 seconds in"
"indoor wood courts. In April 1956 he won the Hurlingham Hardcourt tournament on clay. His last title was at the Northern Championships in Manchester on grass in May 1966. His doubles successes included the capture of the 1953 National Covered Court title with Don Black of Rhodesia and the 1956 Asian Doubles with Roger Becker. In 1956 he became a Davis Cup player and was appointed captain of the British Davis Cup team for the years 1959–1962. Three years later he established and ran the LTA Training Squad, known as ""The Barrett Boys"" which set new standards of fitness in"
"Classic in New Orleans and later a 28:04 win at Peachtree that year. He enjoyed success in the few marathons he ran, his fastest time coming in a 2nd-place finish in the 1981 Boston Marathon (2:10:26). On the track he was a three-time national champion in the 10,000 meters at the U.S. National Track & Field Championships (1978, 1979, and 1982) and the winner of the 1980 Olympic Trials 10,000 meters. In cross country he was a nine-time member of the U.S. squad at the World Cross Country Championships. His biggest international accomplishment was being the first (and still the"
"record. He also broke three world records in the 100m individual medley. The highlight of his career thus far has been winning a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He also placed 4th in the individual 100 m freestyle. In November 2005, he announced that he had refused a multimillion-dollar offer by Qatar's Olympic body to switch nationalities and swim for Qatar at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The 4×100 m freestyle relay world record was subsequently broken in 2006 by the United States. After finishing the 2008 Summer Olympics. He became the first"
"up sport following an accident where he fell from a tree as a 19-year-old. Sports played a key role in his rehabilitation. He made his international debut in 1966. He went to Toronto after having won gold at the 1974 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Dunedin, where he set a world record lift of 202.50 kg in the heavyweight class. He also competed at the 1966 Commonwealth Paraplegic Games in Jamaica. Bill Lean William (Bill) Lean was a New Zealand Paralympic athlete from Dunedin. In the 1968 Summer Paralympics he competed in archery, athletics, dartchery and table tennis. In the 1976"
"1993, his first senior national title, he competed at the 1993 World Championships in Athletics, though he was eliminated in the heats. His most successful year came in 1994. He was Britain's top performer at the 1994 IAAF World Cross Country Championships in 32nd place then claimed fifth place in the 5000 m at the 1994 European Athletics Championships. He took his first major medals over the 5000 m, being the silver medallist at the 1994 IAAF World Cup (behind Brahim Lahlafi) and a bronze medallist at the 1994 Commonwealth Games. His last high-profile international medal was at the 1995"
"Nashville. He attended Norfolk State University. At the 1996 Olympic Trials, he just missed representing the USA at the 1996 Olympics in the 200 meters, finishing 4th in a race where a world record time (19.66 seconds) was set by Michael Johnson. His time in the race was 20.08, just .04 seconds behind 3rd-place finisher and former American record holder Michael Marsh. He won a silver medal (in the 400 meters) at the 1994 World Junior Championships, finished fourth at the 2002 IAAF World Cup and seventh at the 2003 IAAF World Athletics Final. He became US Outdoor champion in"
"the world record. At the 1974 Commonwealth Games in Christchurch, New Zealand, he won a gold in the 200-metre breaststroke, a second gold in the 200-metre individual medley, and a silver in the 100-metre breaststroke. Also in 1974 at the European Championships in Vienna, Austria, he won a gold in the 200-metre individual medley in a world record time. He also won gold for the 200-metre breaststroke and silver as a member of the British 4x100-metre medley relay team. From 1972 to 1976 he was unbeaten in 200-metre breaststroke races. However, it was after several years of further intensive training,"
"age of thirteen. His first success came at the 1983 European Athletics Junior Championships, where he won the 800 m gold medal. He was the English schools champion and AAA Indoor Junior champion over 800 m that same year. His major senior debut followed at the 1984 European Athletics Indoor Championships, where he narrowly missed a medal in fourth place behind fellow Briton Phil Norgate. He achieved his personal best of 1:44.65 minutes that year, but was overlooked for the British Olympic team for the 1984 Los Angeles Games. His first national title followed at the 1985 AAA Indoor Championships"
"London as a sport ambassador. Initially he participated in distance competitions of five kilometers. Later he had to make a radical decision, which was to dedicate himself completely to race walking. His first regional trophy in the 5K walk during the South American Pre-Junior championship held in his native city of Cuenca. His first international achievement occurred when he won the bronze medal in the Junior World Cup of Athletics in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, in 1990. Two years later, he won the Junior World title in Seoul, Korea, followed shortly by victories in South American and Pan-American open competitions. His crowning"
"times, and was the first European to break the ten-second barrier. In the 1988 100 metres Olympic final, he became the first man to break the ten-second barrier and not win the race. In the 1991 100 metres World Championships final, he became the first man to break the ten-second barrier and come fourth, running 9.92 seconds. His gold medal performances in world, European, Commonwealth and Olympic competitions rank him as one of the most successful 100 m sprinters in international events. He won 10 gold medals and a total of 24 medals over his career in major championships; the"
"first senior international was the 2002 Four Continents Championships, where they won the bronze medal. The same season they competed in the 2002 Olympics, placing 11th, and the 2002 Worlds, placing 9th. The following season they competed in their first two senior Grand Prix events, placing fourth at both events. They repeated with a bronze medal at the 2003 Four Continents Championships and improved their placement at the 2003 Worlds, finishing sixth. For the next two seasons, they consistently medaled at their Grand Prix events. They won gold at the 2005 Four Continents Championships and bronze at the 2005 Worlds."
"including the 4×400 m relay which the school had not entered for a number of years. The Camperdown team also won at the Penn Relays, and he was selected for the junior international relay team. At the 2004 World Junior Championships in Athletics he won the bronze medal in the 100 m and anchored the junior relay team to the silver medal behind the United States. He returned at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics and (along with Yohan Blake) helped the 4×100 m relay team to the world junior gold medal. He was beaten the 100 m bronze"
"a team gold medal in the women's recursive division. She received selection to the All-East Women's Recursive Team during all four years of her college career (2008-2012). After starting her freshman year at Columbia, Harrington competed at the 2008 FITA Youth World Championships held in Antalya, Turkey. Harrington placed 22nd out of 75 archers in the Junior Women's Recursive Division, which marked the best performance by an American. Anna Harrington Anna Christine Harrington is an American archer who played for the Columbia Lions of Columbia University. Competing alongside Sarah Chai and Marilyn He, Harrington helped lead the team to victory"
"Interclub Championships, and has accomplished this feat 3 more times since the Asian Interclub Championships, at the 2014 Asian Games, 2015 World Weightlifting Championships, and the 2016 Summer Olympics. He is also the sixth man to lift at least 3 times bodyweight in the clean & jerk in international competition. He has set 4 senior world records throughout his career, all in the clean & jerk. He won the gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics at the men's 56 kg event, setting an Olympic Record in the clean and jerk with 168kg, all while competing in the B session."
"and also increases their metabolic process."" Later, he became notable as the primary proponent of Iron Yoga in India, a technique designed primarily to improve flexibility and maintain muscle strength. In the field of sports, he has participated in the different type of sports, like taekwondo, karate, Judo, Athletics. Powerlifting etc. He represented India in IJK World Judo Championship held in Miami (USA) Dated: 18th - 21st, November 2016. Got overall winner in the MASTER category (master best lifter), in Delhi State Powerlifting Championship, organized by India Powerlifting Federation. (21 May 2017). Delhi State Masters Championship organized by Veterans Athletic"
"age, and until the age of 12, he specialized in breaststroke. However, as he grew, he converted to freestyle, specializing in the longer pool distances. His first international success came as a 16-year-old at the 2011 European Junior Swimming Championships in Belgrade, where he won the 1500 metres gold and an 800 metres bronze. Having qualified for the World championships in Shanghai, he did not progress further than the heats, but a few weeks later at the World Junior Championships in Lima, Peru, he was back on the podium with a 1500 metres freestyle silver and an 800 metres bronze."
"Anna Harrington Anna Christine Harrington is an American archer who played for the Columbia Lions of Columbia University. Competing alongside Sarah Chai and Marilyn He, Harrington helped lead the team to victory at the 2011 U.S. Intercollegiate Archery Championships (USIAC). Defeating the Texas A&M Aggies, the core won the recursive division title to capture a gold medal. The following year, Harrington's team finished third at the USIAC to capture a bronze medal. Harrington grew up in Bernardsville, New Jersey, and she graduated from Morristown-Beard School in Morristown, New Jersey in 2008. During her junior archery career, Harrington ranked eleventh among"
"at the Summer Olympics in 1988 and 1992. Born in Dover in Saint Mary Parish, Jamaica, he did not compete at a high level in his youth but rose to prominence at senior level at the age of twenty-one. He won his first 200 metres title at the Jamaican Athletics Championships that year and made his international debut. First came a run at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships, where he narrowly missed qualifying for the 200 m final. He won double gold at the 1987 Central American and Caribbean Championships in Athletics in the 200 m and 4×100 metres"
"in just one year he had become Puerto Rico’s National Junior Olympics champion, bringing medals to the island during his 2-year reign. The trend continued as he represented the island at the 2004 under 19 World Championships in Korea. Being too young to try out for the 2004 Olympic team, his trainer sent him to New York where he won both the New York and National Golden Gloves tournaments representing Newburgh Boxing Club. His stunning rise through the ranks of the amateur boxing world took an unexpected turn when he was invited to the United States national team. “We decided"
"this period are his first two national records for 50m butterfly, at age 11. In 1995 (aged 15), he made his debut in the National Junior Swimming Team. In 1998 (aged 18) he was selected for the National and Olympic Teams. Between 1996 and 2000, he participated in over 25 major European competitions (official, unofficial and Grand Prix), winning 42 medals. His progress was constant and valuable, and he set 25 national records during this time. One remarkable personal achievement at international level during this period was finishing sixth in the Olympic final of the 200 backstroke at the 2000"
"at the 1995 World Championships, taking home the bronze in the 100 m. At the time he was the youngest athlete ever to win a medal in that event, at 21 years of age. The following year at the 1996 Summer Olympics, he again placed third in the 100 m and 200 m events, both behind world records. In 1997, he won the 200 m at the World Championships in Athens, Greece; his country's first world title in the Athletics World Championships. This made him one of only a few male sprinters to win both a World Junior and World"
"awarded the 1998 Gatorade Massachusetts High School Basketball boys Player of the Year, the 1998 USA Today Massachusetts Boys Basketball Player of the Year, he was named a Parade Magazine Third-Team All American and was ranked as the third best high school shooting guard, and overall 18th best player in the country. Harrington also participated in the Magic Johnson Roundball Classic in Detroit, MI as well as the Reebok Capital Classic in Washington DC. Harrington won a Gold Medal in 1998 with Team USA in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic. After a stellar high school career and interest from many of"
"at the Leamington Boys Club and continued when he joined the Royal Navy. He actually lost his first contest by decision but then went on to only lose another two contests in a total of 100 fights. He won three national junior titles and won the senior ABA championship in 1945 at welterweight and in 1946 at middleweight. In 1945 he won both the junior and senior ABA titles in the same season, the only person to have done that. He also fought for Britain in the annual televised match against the USA in 1946 and scored a first round"
"caught smoking aged twelve, and this helped him to become a proficient runner. He made his athletics debut at seventeen at a national school championships after being persuaded to attend by a friend, and won a gold medal. He went on to represent the United Kingdom at the Paralympics in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000 and 2004, winning a total of five golds during that time. His two career highlights are winning gold and setting a world record at Barcelona in 1992, and winning the 5k race in Sydney in 2000, again setting a world record. At the 2004 games"
"of 24.08 in the semi finals, but improved it with a time of 24.04 in the final. It was the second gold of the event for the British team, who took home their best ever tally of seven medals in total. He wore a bodyskin swimsuit which was subsequently banned by FINA at the start of 2010. In the 50m backstroke event at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, he took the gold medal once more, breaking the Commonwealth Games record with a time of 24.62 in the final. He also took a second Commonwealth gold in the 100m backstroke"